Calling all open source faithful: the call for participation for OSCON 2007 has just been unveiled. Program co-chairs Nat Torkington and Allison Randal are seeking proposals for sessions and tutorials highlighting the progress and innovation that open source is contributing to the computing industry.

We’re expecting 2500 programmers, hackers, IT managers, designers, academics, and alpha geeks joining us at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland next July 23-27. In addition to hundreds of sessions and tutorials, OSCON 2007 will also feature another edition of the O’Reilly Radar Executive Briefing, a big ol’ expo hall, and lots of events so even if you don’t want to participate as a speaker, be sure to mark your calendar to join us.

Give yourself the gift of geekiness this holiday season–a pass to our Emerging Technology Conference. The 2007 theme is “sufficiently advanced technology” and tech magic will abound, from the infrastructure supporting mass-market players, the promise of mass computing, and alternative energy sources to personalized medicine, movie magic, web heresies, talking paper,and the return of the Make Fest.

Sign up before the early discount deadline expires on February 5 to save some ducats. It might also save you some regret, too–we sold every seat last time and expect to do the same for 2007.

Over on the O’Reilly Radar, Tim has posted a few thoughts on TOC:

Over the past year or so, I’ve been asked to give a number of talks focusing on the application of Web 2.0 ideas to publishing. It’s a natural for O’Reilly. We’re an innovative publisher. We’re the originator of the term Web 2.0. But more to the point, publishers large and small are realizing that the ground is moving under their feet, and that the industry will never be the same again…Accordingly, we’ve decided to launch a new conference entitled TOC: Tools of Change for Publishing.

Bridget Kinsella posted this article on the event in PW Daily on Monday:

O’Reilly Media will host the first of what it hopes will be an annual event called TOC: Tools of Change for Publishing, June 18-20, at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif. Sarah Milstein, O’Reilly’s conference program chair, describes TOC: Publishing as a how-to conference and trade show about the future of information exchange.

There’s a brand new generation of technology engulfing the publishing industry, and we’re launching an event designed to highlight the opportunities: TOC, the Tools of Change for Publishing Conference. TOC is happening in San Jose, California June 18-20, 2007, and we’ve just opened the call for participation.

If you’re a publisher, editor, author, marketing or production manager, consultant, technology provider, or other interested commentator with bold ideas for the future of publishing and would like to share them with 500 other publishing innovators and decision-makers, we want to hear from you. The deadline to submit proposals to speak at TOC is January 22, 2007.